Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sri lankan forest bittergourd curry. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sri Lankan Forest Bittergourd Curry is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Sri Lankan Forest Bittergourd Curry is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sri lankan forest bittergourd curry using 28 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sri Lankan Forest Bittergourd Curry:
- Get For Srilankan Curry Powder-
- Take 1 tbsp Coriander Seeds
- Get 2 tsp Cumin Seeds
- Get 2 tsp Black Peppercorns
- Make ready 2 tsp Split Pigeon Peas/Toordal
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Aniseeds
- Prepare 10 Cloves
- Make ready 4 Green Cardamom Pods
- Take To Marinate-
- Get 200 g Forest Bittergourd/Spiky Gourd/Kantola/Thumbs Karavilla
- Take 2 tsp Red Chilli Powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Asafoetida Powder/Hing
- Get 1 tbsp Sri Lankan Curry Powder
- Prepare 2 tsp Salt
- Prepare To Season
- Take 2 tbsp Coconut Oil
- Prepare 3/4 tsp Mustard
- Get 1 inch Cinnamon
- Get 1 Cardamom Pods
- Make ready 2 Cloves
- Make ready few Curry Leaves
- Prepare 1 Medium Sized Tomato(Finely Chopped)
- Get 1 tbsp Tamarind(Soak in 1/2 cup hot water & extract the pulp)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Jaggery
- Prepare 1 cup Thick Coconut Milk
- Take 1 tsp Kewra water/Pandan Leaves Water
Instructions to make Sri Lankan Forest Bittergourd Curry:
- Dry roast all the ingredients mentioned under the head "Sri Lankan Curry Powder".
- Grind into a fine powder.
- Chop the Forest Bittergourds. No need to peel the skin or deseed.
- Add all the spice powders mentioned under the head "To marinate".
- Coat the bittergourds with the spices. Allow it to marinate for 30 mins.
- Heat oil. Add in mustard seeds. Once they crackle, add cinnamon, cardamom, cloves & curry leaves. Saute
- Put in chopped tomato & marinated Forest Bitter gourds.
- Saute on high flame to 3 mins.
- Add a few tsp water. Cover & cook for 5 mins on low flame.
- Pour in tamarind pulp & coconut milk. Add jaggery.
- Cook covered on medium flame for 10 mins.
- Uncover. Mix in the Kewra water.
- Offer Sri Lankan Thumba Karavilla Curry to Lord Sri Krishna along with Steamed Rice.
So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food sri lankan forest bittergourd curry recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am sure that you will make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page in your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!